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Security Education

Security Education

Security is a team sport. When communities learn good digital security practices together, what they learn is more likely to stick. It's also more effective – for example, there's little point in using encrypted communications if none of your friends use it.

Security Education is an archive of curated Deeplinks posts for trainers, technologists, and educators who teach digital security.

Issues that we track here include: country-specific policy updates on security and privacy, updates on malware and vulnerabilities, discussions on encryption and privacy-protecting tools, updates on surveillance (corporate surveillance, street-level surveillance, and mass surveillance), device searches by law and border enforcement, tracking in devices, and general digital security tips.

Earlier this month, the House Committee on Homeland Security held a hearing to discuss the role of face recognition and other invasive biometric technologies in use by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Despite some pushback from some lawmakers on the committee, John Wagner of the U.S. Customs and...

Derechos Digitales, the leading digital rights organization in Chile, published its third annual Who Defends Your Data report today, in collaboration with EFF. The report assesses whether the country’s top ISPs enforce privacy policies and practices that put their users first. Kurt Opsahl, EFF’s Deputy Executive Director and General...

The latest release of Privacy Badger gives it the power to detect and block a new class of evasive, pervasive third-party trackers, including Google Analytics. Most blocking tools, like uBlock Origin, Ghostery, and Firefox’s native blocking mode (using Disconect’s block lists), use human-curated lists to decide whether to block or...

Our phones hold a plethora of important, private information about our personal lives, and it’s not just their contents that matter: the data that our phones exchange with cell towers during basic connection procedures can reveal critical, and private, information. Perhaps you called the suicide prevention hotline from the Golden...